Lady&#39;s jacket.



J. I'. GO0DENOW.

LADYS JACKET.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24. 1909.

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LADYS Mom-1T.

APPLIATION FILED MAY. 24. 1909. i -l 'QOG v Patented ugu 10, 1909.

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JULIAN FRANK GOODENOW, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

LADYS JACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1909.

Application filed May 24, 1909. Serial No. 497,979.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIAN FRANK Goon- ENow, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas yCity, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Jackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to articles of wearing apparel, and has reference moreespeci-ally to ,a loose and easy fitting garment in the nature of a house jacket vdesigned for ladies' wear.

The object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive garment of the char.- acter specified involvin1 in its making a minimum of skill and rlabor a-nd so constructed as to be invertible in use; that is, having inter-changeable neck and waist portions so that it can with equal facility be put on and worn either end up.

A further and minor object, which is effected in the preferred form of the invention herein illustrated and hereinafter specifically described, is to produce a reversible invertilzle garment vof the character speciiied; that is, one which may lie put on and worn either side out as well as either end up, y

To these ends the invention consists of a garment having the peculiarities of form, structure and adaptability as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

A garment embodying the invention and the manner in which it is made andfworn are shown in the accompanying drawings, which- Figure 1 is a plan view of the single-piece cloth blank corresponding to the attern from which the garment is made. ig. 2 is a similar view, showing the blank partly shaped to the form of the nished garment.

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing lthe blank completely folded and stitched to make the finished garment. Fig. 4 is an inner elevational view of the garment, showing the same spread open preliminary to application to the person of the wearer. Figs. 5 and 6 are front and rear elevational views of the garment as it appears when worn one end up.

Fig. 7 is a front elevational view of the' garment as it appears when worn the other end up.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings, Fig. 1 shows in plan view the form of a single-piece cloth blank from which the garment is made; the cloth used being of an elastic character, preferably knitted fabric or the like, capable .of adapting itself by more or less stretching to the persons of wearers of considerably varying figures. This patternshaped blank comprises a central rectangular .ody-portion designated by A, a pair of duplicate lateral wings B, and an extension or tail-piece C, which is a duplicate of the body portion A. The wings B are each of substantially the width of the portions A and C and are lformed square at one end and rounded or'conveXed at the opposite end, as shown. In forming the arment from this blank, the tailiece C is fo' ded .over upon the body-portion covering the latter, in the manner shown in Fig. The wings B are then folded upon themselves on their longitudinal medi-an lines, as shown in Fig. 3, so that their .outer edges lie alongside the longitudinal edges of the folded-.over tail-piece C; and these 'contiguous edges are united as by stitching, .or otherwise, as indicated at l) in Fig. 3. The described folding of the taillpiece'C and wings B of the blank produces .on either side of .and in line with the junction ofthe parts A and C, and coincident with the squared ends .of the wings B, apertures E which constitute the arm-holes of the garment. The blank, when thus eut, folded, and stitched together, .forms the complete garment, which, it will be observed, is made up of two parts er portionsthat are duplicates of each other in respect to size and sha e, one of these portions comprising the bo y-m'ember A and the inner longitudinal halves of the wings B :and the .other portion comprising the tail-piece C and the outer longitndi-nal halves ofthe wings B. It will thus be seen that .one of these duplicate portions is continuous or integral throughout, while `the other includes the seams D.

closing the arm-holes E, through which the arms of the wearer may be readily inserted after the manner of applying an ordinary coat or jacket.

The duplicate portions of the garment,

` rear of the neck and vfaist regions, or vice versa, according to which end of the garment, as put on, is uppermost; and the portion lyin@ at the neck may be folded over to form a collar F, if desired.

To the rounded margins of the parts B which overlie the front portion of the bust are secured suitable fastening devices, such as hooks and eyes, or frogs, as shown at G. These fastening devices may be located at the center of the curved edges of the front portions B of the garment, in which case the garment will have the same 'lit and appearance When applied either end up. In order to obtain a slight varietjT in. the fit and aspect of the garment `as Worn, the frogs or other fasteningdevices may, as herein shown, be applied to one side of the center of the curved margins of the front members B, in which case, when the garment is applied with the part A forming the upper half of the making the back, Yas shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the fasteners are at a relatively high point, and the gai'- ment has substantially the front appearance shown in Fig. 5. By inverting the garment,

the fasteners ie at a lower position, as shovfn in Fig. 7, thus giving the garment a lo\vneck appearance, wherein the margins of the front portions above the fasteners may be folded over to give the effect of lapels, as shown at II in Fig. 7

The garment as described being made Without any linin is, obviously, reversible, as Well as invertib e 5 that is, it may be Worn either side out, as Well as either end up. rLhe edges of the garment, including the part C uppermost at the back,`

l edges of the arm-hole openings E, may be provided with a crocheted edge or other marginal finish, the same being indicated by I, this, however, being entirely optional.

By the term continuous as used herein, I mean to designate a fabric that is integral or Without seam; and by the term joined I mean a connection which is either integral or continuous, or created by stitching or other connecting means.

I claim:

j l. A sleeveless jacket made of an elastic fabric and having interchangeable neck and Waist portions, substantially as described.

2. An invertible jacket comprising duplicate upper and lon'er portions havin r arinholes formed coincident with the line of junction of said upper and lower portions, substantially as described.

3. An invertible jacket made of a single piece of elastic fabric folded and stitched te form duplicate continuous upper and lower portions having arm-holes coincident with f the line of junction of said upper and lower portions, substantially as descrlbed.

4. An invertible sleeveless jacket lnade of a single piece of elastic fabric, and comprising a continuous back portion and side and front portions continuous with one vertical half of said back portion and stitched to the other vertical half of said back portion, substantially as described.

5. An invertible jacket comprising duplicate upper and lower portions each havmg four margins, two oppositely disposed inargins of one portion being joined throughout their full extent to the corresponding mar gins of the other portion, a third margin be ing joined throughout its intermediate part to the intermediate part of the corresponding margin ofthe other portion and separated at its end portions from the latter to form armholes, and the corresponding fourth margins of said portions being separated throughout their en tire extent, substantially as described.

JULIAN FRANK GOODENOW.

Witnesses ALBERT S. MARLEY, JOHN S. MARLEY. 

